Lindsey Chavers Sep 11 2006 12:00AM The Lady Pirates improved their record to 13-5 with a victory against Faulkner State Community College on Friday night. In the first game, PJC took the lead early and held it thanks to successful blocking, 30-16. Game 2 was much closer. It was point-for-point until the halfway mark, but the Pirates pulled ahead and...
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Lady Pirates advance to finals in PJC Classic
Lindsey Chavers Sep 11 2006 12:00AM Friday The Lady Pirate Volleyball team proved they are a force to be reckoned with at the PJC Classic, the tournament held at the Milton campus for area community college teams, on Friday. They started off strong against Southern Union Community College from Wadley, Alabama. During the second game, which they lost, the Pirates...
Remembering a day that forever changed the course of America’s future
Sep 11 2006 12:00AM Interviewer: Heather Madden Source: Rachel Strehlow Like many others, Rachel Strehlow was attending class Sept. 11th 2001. For an 8th grader the attacks had quite a different impact. For Rachel the attacks brought confusion. She did not quite understand what was going on at the time. The teachers and students at Rachel’s school waited in the...
Remembering of 9/11: An interview with Joan Disney
Gina Nespoli Sep 11 2006 12:00AM “I just didn’t understand,” Joan Disney, senior secretary for QEP, said. She emotionally talks about her first reaction to hearing the news of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. “I was working in financial aid at the time and I remember someone came in and said that a plane had struck the twin...
A moment defined
Sep 11 2006 12:00AM It’s now Sept. 11, 2006, five years after the fateful day that drastically changed our nation. The Corsair staff teamed up with Julie Ruengert’s Reporting class and blanketed the Pensacola campus, soliciting memories of Sept. 11, 2001.
Editorial: American views have changed since Sept. 11, 2001
Cynthia Munoz Sep 11 2006 12:00AM Since 9/11, America has developed some dramatic changes. One of them is our attitude or our point of view on the subject. We constantly dump on our President, we singled out Middle Easterners, and suddenly we think we’re experts about the war. If you ever paid the slightest attention to the news, you might...
Southern history comes to Pensacola
Sep 11 2006 12:00AM Pensacola Junior College is hosting the 25th Gulf South History and Humanities Conference Oct. 5-7 at the Hilton Garden Inn on Pensacola Beach. The conference is an annual event sponsored by the Gulf South Historical Association, drawing researchers and scholars from colleges and universities in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Special theme sessions will address...
New exhibits at the ‘Anna’
Sep 11 2006 12:00AM The Visual Arts Gallery at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Pensacola Junior College, is kicking off its 2006-2007 Lyceum Exhibition lineup with Pinky Bass and Jan Black. The exhibit runs Sept. 11 through Oct. 23. The opening reception is 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 21. Bass’ pinhole photography is featured in the collections...
PJC awarded $4 million in federal and state grants
Ricky Di Sep 11 2006 12:00AM PJC will receive more than $4 million in federal and state grants in upcoming years, including funding for several new programs. SUCCEED Florida!, a program founded in 2005 by the state legislature to fund workforce education programs, is giving $810,000 to PJC during the 2006-2007 term. The money will provide funds for three new...
Seeing Stars
Lindsey Chavers Sep 11 2006 12:00AM Renovated PJC Planetarium caters to all ages Astronomers are redefining what it actually means for an extraterrestrial object to be a planet. Pluto is no longer a planet, and it is only a matter of time before other objects are added to the list of planets that have been planted in our minds since...